The increasing stress on lake ecosystems is affecting their functioning such as providing
goods and services to inhabiting organisms and riparian communities. Monitoring of water …

Lake systems are under heavy pressure impacting on their biodiversity and associated
ecosystem services. This is especially acute in West Africa and developing countries which …

Macrozoobenthic fouling assemblages were studied in the port area of Livorno, focusing on
the occurrence of non-indigenous species (NIS). Sampling was carried out at ten sites …

Rapid agricultural development has induced severe environmental problems to freshwater
ecosystems. In this study, we aimed to examine the structure and environmental …

Many hydrobiological studies have dealt with the autecology of species within the family
Chironomidae and discussed factors affecting species distribution. The aim of the present …

There is increasing attention on how biomass exchanges determine linkages between
ecosystems. However, there is limited information on the factors determining the direction …

The effectiveness of instream restoration measures in improving habitats has been
extensively examined; however, the evidence is inadequate to infer that these measures …

Metacommunity theory emphasizes that local communities are jointly affected by
environmental filtering and spatial processes. However, the roles of spatial processes are …

Spatial statistical stream-network models are useful for modelling physicochemical data, but
to-date have not been fit to macroinvertebrate data. Spatial stream-network models were fit …

Despite being a fundamental component of biodiversity, several highly diverse taxa of
aquatic invertebrates are still poorly known and poorly considered in protection programs …